Big Time Operator:Keith Hampshire.
#5 on Canada RPM on A&M Records in
in 1973.
INTRO: E
#1.
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I started off a newsboy on a paper.
E B E
For a time I worked in an elevator.
E A
But all the time I knew that later,
E A E
I would be a higher rater, finally,
A B
a big time operator.
#2.
E B E
For a while I drove an excavator..
(yes I did.)
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Then I became a wine and brandy waiter.
(yeah.)
E A E
A builder, then a decorator, later on,
A E A
an estimator, I'm gonna be a big time
B
operator..(yeah, yeah!)
INTERLUDE: E D G
(Oh, ya got to believe in me,
B
I got ambition, yeah!)
#3.
E B E
I took a job as an airline navigator.
E B E
Then I became a crime investigator.
(yes, I did.)
E A E
For a time, a commentator, then I was an
A E A
administrator, I'm gonna be a big time
B
operator.
B
yeah, yeah..yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
E
yeah, yeah!)
OUTRO:
E
Well, don't you know I'm gonna be in the
big time, baby?..a big time operator.
I'll have a whole lotta people workin' for me.
E
Gonna have a chauffeur, an upstairs maid..(Woooo!!)
Big limousine, racing sports car, 50 foot yacht,
race horses.
E
I'm gonna give new meaning to the word 'big'..yeah!!
A big time operator now, now..(Fade.)
A seventies smash from Kraziekhat.